September 24, 2008 — The ratio of casualties dying from combat wounds in the Long War, less than one in ten, is lower than that of recent 20th-century wars, including Operation Desert Storm, according to a recent comparison study. The Center for Strategic and International Studies has shown 9.7 percent of wounded American service members died in Operation Iraqi MORE
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September 19, 2008 — The Navy Cross will be awarded to Sgt. Rafael Peralta posthumously for valor during combat operations conducted November 2004 in Fallujah, Iraq, the Secretary of the Navy announced Sept. 17. Peralta, 25, based out of Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, with Company A, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, assigned to 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary MORE
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September 12, 2008 — The names of all 184 victims who perished at the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, were read aloud yesterday during the official Pentagon Memorial dedication ceremony. The memorial, on a two-acre plot with dozens of maple saplings, consists of 184 illuminated benches, each engraved with a victim's name and arranged north to south from oldest to MORE
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